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James Benjamin PITCHER

James Benjamin PITCHER

Male 1834 -

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  • Name James Benjamin PITCHER 
    Born 20 Apr 1834  Old Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID E956D772ECDF6C45AC38F02D3056EC83FAF6 
    Person ID I362  Penny of Newfoundland
    Last Modified 7 Jul 2018 

    Father James PITCHER,   b. Abt 1791,   d. 23 Sep 1860, Old Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth 
    _UID 78A5A1085C57B3438F15C0CF9177560202B4 
    Family ID F136  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah HOOKEY,   b. 1835, Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 19 Nov 1857  Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 548321232CD03848B9A6F016D4B12807B054 
    Notes 
    • Both parties residing at Old Bonaventure at time of marriage. Witnesses: Samuel Perratt and Mary Short.
    Children 
     1. Jacob PITCHER,   b. 8 Oct 1858, Old Bonaventure, Trinity North, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Elizabeth PITCHER,   b. 11 Nov 1860, Old Bonaventure, Trinity North, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Elizabeth PITCHER,   b. 22 Jun 1863, Old Bonaventure, Trinity North, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Archibald James PITCHER,   b. 20 Jun 1865, Old Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. pre-1921, Old Bonaventure, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
     5. Peter PITCHER,   b. 4 Nov 1867, Old Bonaventure, Trinity North, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Abram PITCHER,   b. 27 Oct 1870, Old Bonaventure, Trinity North, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 15 May 2022 
    Family ID F95  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Fisherman on baptisms of his children.

      Recent (June 2005) information posted on the Devon mailing list (rootsweb) indicates:

      Plymouth Municipal Records:

      17th cent
      Imperfect copy of additional orders for the correction of abuses in, and for
      the better regulation of, the Newfoundland Fishery, which appear to have
      been issued in consequence of a remonstrance and petition lately presented
      to Charles I by 'the adventurers in the Newfoundland Fishery of Weymouth,
      Melcombe Regis, Poole, Lyme, Exeter, Plymouth, Dartmouth, East Looe, Foy,
      Barnstaple and Biddeford'.

      28 August 1667
      Depositions by John [Cutt], Nicholas Luce, Thomas Pitcher, Richard Parker,
      Christopher Selman, all of Dartmouth, Devon, mariners, Thomas Fowles of St
      Marychurch, Devon, mariner, Thomas Cruse of Ashprington, Devon, mariner,
      Gabriell Viddomas of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, mariner, touching Newfoundland
      and the fisheries thereof, taken at Totnes, before Sir Edward Seymour, Sir
      William Courtney and Sir Thomas Reynell, John Hall, Thomas Boone and Gilbert
      Eveleigh, esqs, Commissioners.

      15 December 1669
      Copy of the Order of Council, referring the petition of Captain Robert
      Robinson, touching the condition and needs of Newfoundland, to those Lords
      of His Majesty's Privy Council who have been appointed a Committee of Trade
      and Plantations.

      1669
      Copy of the petition of Captain Robert Robinson, touching the condition and
      needs of Newfoundland, to the Lords of the Council.


      1 March 1674
      Richard Hooper, Mayor, and Christopher Hunt and John Palmer, Aldermen of
      Barnstaple, to the Mayor of Plymouth. Invites the co-operation and agreement
      of the corporations of Barnstaple and Plymouth in answering a circular
      letter from the Council of Trade and Plantations, respecting the
      Newfoundland Fishing Trade.

      6 March 1674
      Abstract of papers delivered to the Rt Worshipful William Weekes, Mayor of
      Plymouth, concerning the Newfoundland Trade.


      [1675] Copy of the petition referred to in the preceeding: 'The humble
      Remonstrance of divers Merchant Owners and Masters of ships and others of
      the Townes of Plymouth, Dartmouth and westerne partes concerned in the
      Fishing Trade of Newfoundland.'

      17th cent
      Letter from John Lanyon on Newfoundland affairs.

      17th cent
      Copy of undated petition of divers merchants, trading to the Newfoundland,
      to the Privy Council.